Excelsior pad



July 7, 1925.

A. B. MASON EXCELSIOR PAD Filed July 27, 1922 Ji( orney Patented `uly 7, 1925'.

ALBERT IB. MASON, OF FULTON, NEW YORK.

EXCELSIOR PAD.

Application filed July 27, 1922. Serial No. 577,880.

To all 10h-0m 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALBERT B. MASON, citizen of the United States, residing at Fulton, in the county of @swego and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Excelsior Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to what are known to trade as excelsior pads, cushions or mats and has for its object the production of those pads in a manner such that the excelsior will be evenly distributed and that it will be held in place in the tubular sheath or jacket even when such jacket be made of unusual width.

The invention therefore consists in the formation and construction of excelsior pads and the like substantially as herein set forth.

Iny the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification Fig. l represents an excelsior pad in perspective; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal transverse section showing the general widthwise arrangement of the fibers within the tube; and Fig. 3 indicates one way of attachingthe fibers to the sheath or tube.

The excelsior pads heretofore made have been comparatively narrow and have not therefore required any particular attention to the arrangement of the fibers to insure even distribution widthwise as well as in thickness. Nor has it been necessary to secure the excelsior from displacement in the tubes or from sliding out of them in handling the pads.

However with the advent of wide tubes or pads the necessity for such distribution and securement has arisen. Take for example a` tube 18 to 2O inches wide and l to 2 inches thick cut square or into pads 3 to 4, feet long the old manner of distributing the fiber mainly lengthwise of the tubes is entirely inadequate and in handling the pads the excelsior becomes hunched laterally or spills from the tube.

These difficulties have been overcome by distributing the fibers more or less width-- wise of the tube and securing them in some adequate way therein.

In Fig. 2 the fibers 4f are illustrated in widthwise arrangement within the tube 5 and in Fig. 3 are indicated at 6 and 7 streaks of adhesiveglue or paste-applied to the inner surface of the tube whereby the excelsior is stuck in place during the process of manufacturing the pad.

The streaks of adhesive substance are here shown on the lower wall of the flat tube but they may be applied to any part of the inner surface of the tube in any direction and in any number.

The invention lclaimed is l. An excelsior pad consisting of a flattened tube Of paper with a filling of excelsior in which the strands or fibers are intermingled and extend in a general transverse direction as to the tube and throughout the length thereof.

2. 'An excelsior pad consisting of a flattened paper tube having a filling of excelsior the strands or fibers of which extend in a general transverse direction as to the tube and an adhesive on the inner wall of the tube to hold the excelsior from displacement.

3. The method of making excelsior pads,

vconsisting in applying strips 0f an adhesive forth.

ALBERT B. MASON. 

